Landscape artists have for far too long been content to be mere spectators. This separation from the earth has led to to an inability to engage with site. More seriously, landscape art has been a contribution towards the commodification of the place. Even today’s land artists often turn their works into objects for sale. The logic of capital pollutes landscape art as surely as it pollutes the landscape itself.It is time, as Camille Pissarro urged over a century ago, to be humble before the earth. To dispense with mediation. To allow the earth to draw on us when we draw on it. To regain our senses of joy and play and restore a relationship as old as humanity.
2003
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